Show ale of Intrigue g ue cI Romantic Love Captivates Reader Hie i Black Bla k Hunter by James Jame Curwood Revives iS ty Y Traditions of Early French Colonists r FRANK BECKER dominion in America i is l'-i l' IWa of or the past as saihe said sai the he foreword to James Olive oo s 's latest novel The IlIac Dlack inter but when we evoke its it J arted ted shades they rise upon us u m their in graves graces strange ro ro- ro guise Again Agahi tl their eh ghostly P l up iii fires seem to burn and the th ul light Is cast around on lord Ion d assal and robed block priest igl gl d d' d with wild forms of or savage knit in close fellowship the samo same stern errand K A vision grows ow upon Jan Ian r an untamed continent vas ast stes of forest verdure moun ns silent In primeval al sleep river rive eland and glimmering pool wilders wilder wilder- s mingling with the sky sk umed helmets gleamed in th the id ides des s of its forests and priestly st rits in its dens and fast fast- Ses eS Men ien steeped in antique f ning pale with the close breath the he cloister here spent the noon If evening of or their lives ruled rued age ge hordes with a mild parental l. l land i y 1 and stood serene before thet the est st t shapes of or death and men of oX nurture heirs to the poli pol- pol of reaching far a i ancestry with I ir 11 r dauntless hardihood put tone to tv tome me ne the boldest sons of or toil toll ct t the time of the story Old Que- Que Iwas still a new city and bulIt bulk bulk bul- bul k k It of the power of France in the stern tern world or the heart of New ence nee ice As Curwood tells the tale love ove and intrigue that lost toce ionee io to nce nee ce a continent one lives again those hose stirring romantic day days Jine story stony is as near historically as ten years ears of or patient rech rech re- re ch could make it As the author l self reports foot toot by foot the wed owed ground has been traveled rs rs ra written by hands dead these riye rs have been read their It people brought brough to life again ancient stones of ruins that erang rang with laughter and song l tragic happenings have been de le o to talk burled b and yellow n s of or priests and martyrs B given up their secrets that thata a anever never known the ink of a aing ang ting ing ng press and holy nuns of have hae contributed what tIe Ie le hands pl placed ced on treasured I rs rs s in a a. forgotten and glorious t. t The he Black Hunter was an ac- ac 1 f though mysterious person persone se e fame tame in the early half of or the century spread through- through the thinly settled American inces nce while his real name reIned reed re- re fied Ined ed unknown And today toda near r valley a a mountain mountains mountain's s 's called s called the Black Hunter Hunte for fortion U tion n sa says s 's that there lies buried burled strange but valiant man who ved ed d so 50 dramatic a role In the Atlantic seaboard 5 when i the a a dangerous frontier the nie love of beautiful Anne St. St lIs Is daughter of a fighting seig- seig r V. V and David Rock flock son of the ts and their dangers and In intrigues and machinations of ot n ois Bigot the last ew i France wicked and without scIence clence lence who plots to destroy ld Id I and win Anne we have an bing romance that hardly pers per- per s one to lay down the book once I las as as taken up the glittering I e ids ds of or the story Cosmopoli- Cosmopoli rook Book COk Corporation I I |